Pirmin Pockstaller

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Abbot Pirmin Pockstaller, oil painting by Josef Öfner, 1875

Pirmin Pockstaller OSB (born September 4, 1806 in Jenbach as Matthäus Pockstaller ; † April 21, 1875 in Fiecht ) was an Austrian Catholic clergyman. From 1834 until his death he was abbot of the Fiecht monastery in Tyrol .

Life

The son of a carpenter joined the Fiecht Benedictine Abbey in 1828. In 1830 he made his profession and took the religious name Pirmin. From 1830 to 1832 he studied theology in Brixen and was ordained a priest in 1832. He then worked as a cooperator in the Achental parish belonging to the monastery . In 1834, at the age of 28, he was elected abbot. Under him, the monastery experienced an enormous boom. He restored St. Georgenberg as a place of pilgrimage, stabilized the economic situation and established tourism on the Achensee , which belonged to the monastery. In 1843 the monastery school was reopened. Pockstaller rearranged the monastery archives and dealt with the history of the monastery, about which he also published several writings, but also sold several manuscripts and incunabula to the British Library in London . After a major fire in 1868 that destroyed large parts of the monastery, he had it restored until 1870. From 1861 to 1868 he was also politically active as a representative of the Tyrolean prelate class in the Austrian House of Representatives .

Fonts

  • Abbey and pilgrimage to St. Georgenberg. Innsbruck 1843
  • Guide through this life after bliss. A book for instruction and devotional practice. Wagner, Innsbruck 1851
  • Contributions to the family history of the Knights of Rottenburg in the Innthale. In: Archive for the history and antiquity of Tyrol, Volume 4 (1867), pp. 1–84.
  • The Achensee in Tyrol with the seaside resort Pertisau and its immediate and distant surroundings. Braumüller, Vienna 1868
  • Chronicle of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgenberg, now Fiecht in Tyrol. Wagner, Innsbruck 1874

Web links

Commons : Pirmin Pockstaller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. XXXI (inlet) .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Pockstaller, Pirmin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pockstaller, Matthäus (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of St. Georgenberg-Fiecht
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Jenbach
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1875
Place of death Fears